Mark Critchley

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1,840 appearances 10 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 8 Jul

Mark Critchley’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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The Athletic FC Podcast · Spain stunned + inside England's preparations · 16 Jun 2026 podcast

But Spain did. voice-verified

And I think they still had like 27 shots. voice-verified

And if you play that game 100 times over, Spain probably win it on a few occasions. voice-verified

And I think that's why... voice-verified

There shouldn't be any overreaction really, but it's coming back to what I said in the previous answer as well. voice-verified

You get caught slipping once in this tournament and then suddenly your whole path through it gets thrown off and you're looking at it now and they've got quite an increased chance, I think, of meeting Argentina in the round of 32 simply because they've drawn this game. voice-verified

you know that is the sort of thing why you need to be on it from every single game we've seen it already this weekend with Switzerland against Qatar as well who I'm not saying Spain were complacent but Switzerland certainly were for a lot of that game just not taking their chances not putting the foot on the throw and they get punished and that I think that shows the importance of just you know playing at your absolute maximum every game even if you think look we can probably beat Cape Verde without Jamal or Nico Williams or whoever voice-verified

I think the interesting thing from it as well is a point that a lot of people made, to be honest, but it's only three European wins from 10 games so far, the tournament, and those wins were against Curacao with Germany, Sweden demolishing Tunisia, then SAC the manager, and then Scotland against Haiti, of course, the three games that you would expect the European teams to come out on top in broadly. voice-verified

So it's been quite a poor start for the European side, but then also it's been an even poorer start for South America. voice-verified

My favourite bit of this game, and maybe our international audience wouldn't have seen this, was actually pre-match on ITV when Duncan Ferguson got schoolboy erred by Wyclef Jean. voice-verified

I don't know if you saw this. voice-verified

No, tell me, tell me. voice-verified

Wyclef Jean was doing pre-match punditry on ITV. voice-verified

Of course. voice-verified

The Wyclef Jean of the Fugees. voice-verified

Of the Fugees. voice-verified

Wow. voice-verified

Who is of Haitian extraction. voice-verified

Yeah. voice-verified

So he was bigging up Haiti and then suddenly realised that he was in the studio with Duncan Ferguson. voice-verified

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